From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 12 10: 9:44 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A74BC37B435 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 10:09:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpproxy2.mitre.org (smtpproxy2.mitre.org [192.80.55.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B27EF43F3F for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 10:09:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from avsrv2.mitre.org (avsrv2.mitre.org [128.29.154.4]) by smtpproxy2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h1CI9ba09407; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:09:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from MAILHUB2 (mailhub2.mitre.org [129.83.221.18]) by smtpsrv2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h1CI9aM27771; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:09:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from mm112324-2k.mitre.org (128.29.3.65) by mailhub2.mitre.org with SMTP id 1103232; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:09:30 -0500 Message-ID: <3E4A8DD7.1050407@mitre.org> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:09:27 -0500 From: Jason Andresen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jukka Simila Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serial ATA References: <3E4A7951.4020607@mitre.org> <1045072200.621.14.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1045072200.621.14.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jukka Simila wrote: > On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 17:41, Jason Andresen wrote: > >>Hello, >> Does anybody know if any Serial ATA cards are supported in FreeBSD? In >>particular, is the 4 port Promise SATA150 TX4 supported? >> >>I don't see anything in the hardware list, but has anybody had any luck >>with these cards? >> >>My thought on this matter was to avoid the PCI interrupt issues by just >>using one of those somewhat inexpensive Serial ATA cards with 4+ ports >>and Serial->Parallel ATA converters on the HDDs (which aren't as >>inexpensive as I'd like but still within reason). Apparently nobody >>makes an affordable 4 port Parallel ATA controller, they're all pricy >>RAID solutions. > > > Dont know about SATA150, but: > If Promise SX6000 is out of question, then what about Highpoint > RocketRaid 404? That has HPT374 chip, and at least hardware notes say > HPT374 works. > > In sweden, RocketRaid 404 =~ EUR 130, Promise SATA 150 =~ EUR 95. > I'm sure the cost of 4 adapters would fill that gap? > > (i didn't check the exact exchange rates at the moment but you see the > approximate..) Hmm, that looks like almost exactly what I was looking for. I can't belive I didn't see it earlier. I was even on Highpoint's site. Since I don't plan on using the RAID features, I wasn't ready to drop the $230US for the 3Ware card, but this one looks quite feasable at ~$90US. Thanks! -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message